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Countries

Countries

Austria, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Switzerland
European Union, Malta

Total No. Of Countries

72
0 46
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National Language

Germany
Malta

Second Language

North Dakota, United States of America
Not spoken in any of the countries

Speaking Continents

Europe
Europe

Minority Language

Czech Republic, Denmark, Former Soviet Union, France, Hungary, Italy, Namibia, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia
Australia, Canada, Italy, United States of America

Regulated By

Council for German Orthography
National Council for the Maltese Language

Interesting Facts

  • One of the large group of Indo-Germanic languages is German.
  • The second most popular Germanic language spoken today behind English is German language.
  • Maltese language is the only semitic language written in Latin characters.
  • Maltese language has borrowed many loan words from English, Italian and French.

Similar To

Dutch, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish and English Languages
Western Arabic Dialects

Derived From

Albanian Languages
Roman Languages

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

2630
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

106
0 32
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How Many Consonants

924
9 60
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Scripts

Latin
Latin

Writing Direction

Left-To-Right, Horizontal
-

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

66
2 12
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Time Taken to Learn

30 weeks30 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

hallo
Ħello

Thank You

Danke
Grazzi

How Are You?

Wie geht es dir?
Kif int?

Good Night

gute Nacht
Il-Lejla it-tajba

Good Evening

guten Abend
Il-Lejla it-tajba

Good Afternoon

guten Tag
Wara nofs in-nar it-tajjeb

Good Morning

guten Morgen
L-għodwa t-tajba

Please

bitte
Jekk jogħġbok

Sorry

Verzeihung
Skużani!

Bye

Tschüs
Ċaw

I Love You

Ich liebe dich
Inħobbok ħafna

Excuse Me

Entschuldigung
Skużi!

Dialects

Dialect 1

Swiss German
Qormi

Where They Speak

Switzerland
Malta

How Many People Speak

4,500,000.00520,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Swabian German
Żejtun

Where They Speak

Germany
Malta

How Many People Speak

820,000.00500,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Texas German
Not Present

Where They Speak

Texas
-

How Many People Speak

6,000.00500,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

282
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

229.00 million0.52 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

1.39 %0.02 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

101.00 million0.52 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

128.00 million0.50 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

Deutsch
Malti

Alternative Names

Deutsch, Tedesco
Malti

French Name

allemand
maltais

German Name

Deutsch
Maltesisch

Pronunciation

[ˈdɔʏtʃ]
[mɔːltiːz]

Ethnicity

Germans
Maltese

History

Origin

6th Century AD
c. 1470

Language Family

Indo-European Family
Afro-Asiatic Family

Subgroup

Germanic
Semitic

Branch

Western
North Abric

Language Forms

Early Forms

No early forms
No early forms

Standard Forms

German Standard German, Swiss Standard German and Austrian Standard German
Maltese

Language Position

925
1 120
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Signed Forms

Signed German
Maltese Sign Language

Scope

Individual
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

de
mt

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

deu
mlt

ISO 639 2/B

ger
mlt

ISO 639 3

deu
mlt

ISO 639 6

deus
mlt

Glottocode

high1287, uppe1397
malt1254

Linguasphere

52-ACB–dl & -dm
12-AAC-c

Types of Language

Language Type

Living
Living

Language Linguistic Typology

Subject-Object-Verb, Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Object-Verb

Language Morphological Typology

Fusional, Synthetic
Synthetic

German and Maltese Alphabets

German and Maltese Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in German and Maltese. In German Alphabets there are 26 letters while in Maltese Alphabets there are 30 letters. To learn German and Maltese languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of German and Maltese languages. The German phonology consist German vowels and German consonants. After alphabets, words are to be learned and after words, phrases in that language. Take a look at German greetings vs Maltese greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether German and Maltese are Most Spoken Languages.

All German and Maltese Dialects

Most languages have dialects where each dialect differ from other dialect with respect to grammar and vocabulary. Here you will get to know all German and Maltese dialects. Various dialects of German and Maltese language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of German are spoken in different German Speaking Countries whereas Maltese Dialects are spoken in different Maltese speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking German vs Maltese Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the German dialects include: Swiss German, Swabian German. Maltese dialects include: Qormi , Żejtun. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

German and Maltese Speaking population

German and Maltese speaking population is one of the factors based on which German and Maltese languages can be compared. The total count of German and Maltese Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking German language is 1.39 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Maltese language is 0.02 %. When we compare the speaking population of any two languages we get to know which of two languages is more popular. Find more details about how many people speak German and Maltese on German vs Maltese where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

German and Maltese Language Codes

German and Maltese language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. German and Maltese Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.